IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 6/17/2015

Sony’s E3 press conference shows off exclusives and then crashes Kickstarter
Heartfelt request to raise money for Shenmue III results in a DDoS of pledges.

Ars sits down with BioWare to talk about Mass Effect: Andromeda
Manager Aaryn Flynn and creative director Mac Walters dish (a bit) on new adventure.

New Xbox One interface shown: Quicker, social, and Cortana-equipped
And far fewer tiles than before.

Liveblog: The PC Gaming Show at E3 2015
The glorious masters of gaming finally get their own E3 press conference.

Ubisoft stealth-assaults E3 with new South Park, Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate
New footage of Rainbow Six: Siege and new IP For Honor.

EA at E3: Star Wars Battlefront, Mirror’s Edge reboot, and new IP Unravel
Plus a bunch of iterative sports games, more Star Wars games, and Plants vs. Zombies.

Game of Thrones season finale breaks BitTorrent swarm record
More than 258,000 people were sharing same file, besting last year's record.

The Sunday Times sends DMCA notice to critics of Snowden hacking story
Headline claimed Russia and China got Snowden cache; article didn't deliver.

SpaceX will hold a Hyperloop pod competition in 2016
The company is building a 1-mile test track next to its HQ in Hawthorne, California.

Genetic risk of psychiatric illness linked to creativity
But the connection is pretty tenuous.

Hack of cloud-based LastPass exposes hashed master passwords
Users: Change your master password and enable 2-factor authentication immediately.

Xbox One at E3: Backward compatibility, controllers, and games galore
Halo, Forza, Tomb Raider, The Division—all on the stage and coming soon.

First look: OS X El Capitan brings a little Snow Leopard to Yosemite
We spent a week with the first beta to save you from breaking your laptop.

Microsoft partners with Valve VR and Oculus, shows Minecraft for HoloLens
Virtual reality is the cool new place to be.

Rare announces swashbuckling Sea of Thieves for Xbox One and PC
Tantalising hints that Rare's "most ambitious game ever" might be an MMO.

Xbox Game Preview brings early access to Xbox One, adds free demo options
Xbox Preview users can already try Elite: Dangerous and The Long Dark.

Forza Motorsport 6: Getting dark and wet in a world-first hands-on
A world exclusive look at what's under the hood of Turn 10's new racing sim.

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IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 6/17/2015

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